What if we *did* actually medicalize hard right, racist, and conspiracy theory victims? Hating them and yelling hasn't really fixed the problems, so why not try science about it?
… and whom would you want to entrust with the decision who needs to be medicalized?
The New York Times editorial board??
Do you think they wouldn't gleefully repeat historical precedent???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
On a loosely related subject, aren't hard right, racist, and other various and sundry conspiracy theories the result of medicalization with OxyContin etc.????
@tatzelbrumm and I have no idea what you mean by that Oxy thing, but opioids don't so anything like that, that's so wrong I don't even know what to say to it. That's like pizzagate weird.
@quinn
At least in the US and A, there appears to be an epidemic of drug abuse, see, e.g.,
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db356.htm
i.e., to deal with increasingly unbearable living conditions, people seek escape by consuming mind altering substances.
It's
#HaHaOnlySerious
to assume that consumption of mind altering substances isn't just correlated with, but actually causes people to hold and express opinions that make them look like they've lost their mind.
Greetings from The Outside of the Asylum.
@tatzelbrumm dude, i come from a family of american addicts. mom was a heroin junky, dad had a crack jones, and both of them drank like fish. diseases haven't got shit to do with your personal politics. they're diseases.
also there's epidemics of addiction all over the world, and that's not even slightly new.